Word Meanings - DOMICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. R. Park.
Related words: (words related to DOMICULTURE)
- HOUSEWIFE
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good - HOUSEWARMING
A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson. - HOUSEBOTE
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. - HOUSEROOM
Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom. - HOUSEWIFELY
Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott. - KEEP
k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to - HOUSEMAID
A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee , a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who - HOUSEMATE
One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning. - HOUSEWRIGHT
A builder of houses. - HOUSEKEEPER
1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants - KEEPER
1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of - HOUSELING
See HOUSLING - HOUSEWIFE; HOUSEWIVE
To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller. - HOUSEBREAKING
The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break. - HOUSEWORK
The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like. - HOUSEBREAKER
One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking. - KEEPERSHIP
The office or position of a keeper. Carew. - HOUSELESS
Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer. - HOUSELEEK
A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum , originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen. - HOUSEWIFERY
The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns. - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - WAREHOUSE
A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison. - POSTHOUSE
1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office. - SAFE-KEEPING
The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody. - HENHOUSE
A house or shelter for fowls. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - TRUGGING-HOUSE
A brothel. Robert Greene. - FULL HOUSE
A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind. - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. - TIRING-HOUSE
A tiring-room. Shak. - OUTKEEPER
An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - HOTHOUSE
A heated room for drying green ware. (more info) 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. Shak. - BEADHOUSE; BEDEHOUSE
An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. - WASHHOUSE
An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry. - INNKEEPER
An innholder. - UNHOUSED
Driven from a house; deprived of shelter. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: - NEATHOUSE
A building for the shelter of neat cattle. Massinger. - MUGHOUSE
An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel. - STOVEHOUSE
A hothouse.